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GCC professor given award for years of leadership
Gordon Alexandre has never shied away from confrontation.
As a student at UCLA during the 1960s and ’70s, he rocked an enormous afro while serving as a vocal grass-roots organizer. Later, as a history professor at Glendale Community College, he...Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Education, Colleges and Universities, University of California, Los Angeles, Karl Marx
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Chicago aldermen back longer class day as 4th school makes the change
Tribune reportersThe Chicago City Council overwhelmingly approved a resolution today in support of a longer school day for public school children -- the same day a fourth school in the city voted to add 90 minutes to its day. “With this resolution the city of...Tags: Nicholas Sposato, School Examinations, Education, Chicago Mayor, Edward M. Burke
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Chicago Teachers Union files complaint to block schools from lengthening day
Tribune reporterThe Chicago Teachers Union filed an unfair labor practice complaint to block schools from signing waivers and lengthening class days as a fifth school voted to extend its day. The union accused the governing board of the Chicago Public Schools of “...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Examinations, Chicago Public Schools, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace
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The Chicago Forward: Education essay winners are ...
For our Sept. 13 public affairs forum with Chicago schools chief Jean-Claude Brizard and teachers union leader Karen Lewis, we asked Trib Nation to write an essay on what makes public education succeed or fail.
Here are the contributions from winners Ray...Tags: WTTW, Teaching and Learning, Science, Clubs and Associations, Labor Legislation
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Heads of CPS, teachers union spar in joint appearance
Tribune reporterThe two sides waging a public tug of war over the future of Chicago Public Schools playfully sparred Tuesday night in a live debate over contentious issues including a longer school day and teacher pay and evaluations. But CPS chief Jean-Claude Brizard...Tags: Chicago, Chicago Public Schools, Career and Workplace, Jean-Claude Brizard, Work Relations
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Talks between Waynesboro school board and teachers union canceled
Negotiations scheduled for today between the Waynesboro Area School Board and its teachers union have been canceled.
Representatives of the bargaining unit, Waynesboro Area Education Association, called for the cancellation because they said they didn'...Tags: Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia)
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Overcrowding In NYC Schools Hits All-Time 10 Year High
!["We have to stop this craziness!" Michael Mulgrew, Teachers Union President proclaimed.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/64957729-22231040-187105.jpg ""We have to stop this craziness!\" Michael Mulgrew, Teachers Union President proclaimed.")
PIX11.COM"We have to stop this craziness!" Michael Mulgrew, Teachers Union President proclaimed. It was just one of the many pleas made by the United Federation of Teachers Thursday, outside of Murray Bergtraum High School in Lower Manhattan Wednesday, in...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Manhattan (New York City), Regional Authority, Politics, Government Debt
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Chicago Teachers Union wants to meet with aldermen
Clout StreetChicago Teachers Union officials want to make their case directly to aldermen to counter the blitz Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration has undertaken to institute a longer school day. Union president Karen Lewis sent out letters to aldermen...Tags: Nicholas Sposato, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Public Schools, Career and Workplace, Chicago Hotels
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Baltimore County average teacher salary is lowest among large systems
Baltimore County's average teacher salary is the lowest among large school systems in Maryland, but its two top officials are some of the highest-paid, according to data collected by the state.
On average, teachers in the county earn $60,272 — less...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Teaching and Learning, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Labor complaint against longer school day to get hearing
Tribune reporterThe Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board announced late Thursday it will hold a hearing in December to review an unfair labor practice complaint from the Chicago Teachers Union over the contentious longer school day issue. Next week, the labor...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Chicago, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Work Relations
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Teachers union endorses Obama
Tribune reporterThe nation's largest teachers union voted Monday in Chicago to support President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid despite discord between rank-and-file teachers and the administration over key education reforms. Seventy-two percent of the National...Tags: Education, Elections, Pat Quinn, Arne Duncan, Illinois
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Labor board sides with Chicago Teachers Union in dispute over longer school day
Tribune reporterA state labor relations board sided with the Chicago Teachers Union today, asking the state attorney general’s office to seek an injunction to keep more of Chicago public schools from lengthening their days. The nine elementary schools that already...Tags: Justice System, Chicago, Lawyers, Chicago Public Schools, Labor Legislation
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